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You may have been lucky enough to get your hands on Franz Ferdinand's awesome Record Store Day exclusive EP last year. It featured Debbie Harry, Stephin Merritt, Peaches, ESG and LCD Soundsystem tackling their favourite tracks from FF's latest album, Tonight.

Now two 12"s with remixes of these songs are to be released on March 19th, including a fantastic Brennan Green mix of "Live Alone", featuring Debbie Harry, LCD Soundsystem and Franz Ferdinand themselves together at last!

Additionally, Alex Kapranos recently tweeted links to four videos made for the songs from last year's EP, allowing you to enjoy them all over again. And you can thank the boys themselves when they're headlining this year's Field Day festival in London's Victoria Park on Saturday the 2nd of July.

Here are the tracklistings for those remix 12"s:

12" 1
LCD Soundsystem - Live Alone - Toby Tobias Remix
ESG - What She Came For - Wild Geese Leyline Dub
Peaches - Turn It On - David Maloso Remix

12" 2
Debbie Harry & Franz Ferdinand & LCD Soundsystem - Live Alone - Brennan Green Remix
Debbie Harry & Franz Ferdinand - Live Alone - dOP Remix

You can listen to them right away:

So, what are you waiting for? Pre-order the Remixes 12" and the Remixes 12" 2 right away!

And finally, here are those videos:

LCD Soundsystem - Live Alone - Directed by Gabriel Pulecio in collaboration with Lorena Kraus


Stephin Merritt - Dream Again - Directed by Russell Weekes


Peaches - Turn It On - Directed by Nice & Polite


ESG - What She Came For - Directed by Konx Om Pax

Shotgun, backed with Trigger The Alarm, will be released digitally on 26th March 2012. The second single from Eugene McGuinness’ forthcoming much anticipated LP, due in June, is a smokin’ track about ‘crawling into the city and ramming your chin into somebody’s teeth’, according to Eugene. Purchase it HERE.

The accompanying video was directed by the Grammy-nominated, Sundance-shortlisted Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern (thirtytwo), long term collaborators with Eugene McGuinness.

Eugene McGuinness will be performing three shows as support to Marina & the Diamonds later this month including a date at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire. Eugene then tours as special guest of Miles Kane on an eight-day tour throughout April with a London show at the Forum. A reminder that Eugene is playing at White Heat in London tonight with Grimes (stage time 9.15pm).

Full live dates are as follows:

7th February: London: White Heat at Madam Jojos – 9.15pm stage time

Tour with Marina & The Diamonds
24th February: Cambridge: Junction
25th February: Brighton: St George’s Church
26th February: London: Shepherds Bush Empire

Tour with Miles Kane:
20th April: Nottingham: Rock City
21st April: Glasgow: Barrowlands
22nd April: Dundee: Fat Sams
23rd April: Inverness: Iron Works
25th April: Leeds: Academy
26th April: Manchester: Academy 1
27th April: Bristol: Academy
28th April: London: Forum

The Magnetic Fields’ new single ‘Andrew In Drag’ will be released by Domino on Monday the 27th of February 2012.  The provocative new video for the track is available to view below:

Created by New York-based Valins & Co. for the catchy first single from new album ‘Love At The Bottom Of The Sea’ (released on Monday the 5th of March), the video is a study of the process of transformation and the art of styling.  Shot on the new RED Epix-X Camera, the visual direction follows suit with the pop pacing, candid musings and the ingenious lyrics of Stephin Merritt.  According to director Scott Valins, “This piece was all about maintaining a constant balance and ambiguity”.

The Magnetic Fields will be returning to the UK and Ireland this spring, dates are as follows:

The Magnetic Fields’ UK and Irish Tour Dates

March 11 ATP Festival – Minehead - http://www.artistticket.com/price.asp?code=603950&userid={A17E0784-2807-4EDD-B322-82EAE939C590}&filler1=artistticket&filler2=main
April 24 Komedia – Brighton
www.artistticket.com
April 25 Royal Festival Hall – London
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/the-magnetic-fields-62337
April 27 RNCM – Manchester
www.artistticket.com
April 28 The Olympia – Dublin
www.ticketmaster.ie
April 29 Opera House – Cork
http://corkoperahouse.ie/

James Yorkston was the first member of the Fence Collective to emerge from the creative oddity that is the East Neuk of Fife. His first solo show was supporting Bert Jansch, his first tour was supporting John Martyn. After those heady heights he went on to sign to Domino and record his debut album in a damp soaked cottage in the Scottish Borders. Domino subsequently released this record, Moving Up Country, which went on to become Rough Trade’s Album of The Year 2002.

James was invited to play a John Peel Radio 1 session in 2003 (included here on the second disc) and was labelled ‘the finest songwriter of his generation’. He has gone on to forge a career as one of Scotland’s most respected songwriters, releasing 5 further critically acclaimed albums.

This 10th Anniversary Edition of ‘Moving Up Country’, released on Monday the 23rd of April 2012, consists of two discs.  Disc 1 features the original album, now with debut Domino single The Lang Toun; Disc 2 is a collection of ‘Moving Up Country’ demos, including never heard before demos and the aforementioned Peel session originally broadcast on Jan 2nd 2003. The double vinyl edition features all tracks from disc 1 with digital downloads of the bonus tracks. Download the demo of ‘Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel' HERE.

James Yorkston And The Athletes will be performing ‘Moving Up Country’ in it’s entirety and a selection of other classics at the shows below.

‘Moving Up Country’ 10th Anniversay Edition is available on double CD, double vinyl and via digital download.  Pre-order the album HERE.  Tracklisting is as follows:
Disc 1
In Your Hands
St Patrick
Sweet Jesus
Tender to the Blues
Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel
Cheating The Game
I Spy Dogs
6:30 Is Just way to Early
The Patience Song
I Know My Love
The Lang Toun

Disc 2
I Spy Dogs - Demo
6:30 Is Just Way Too Early - Demo
Cheating The Game - Demo
The Patience Song - Demo
My Distance Travelled - Demo
Easily Led - Demo
Saviour A Saving - Demo
They’ll Be Telling Me You’re A Lady - Demo
Worthy Souls - Demo
Catching Eyes - Demo
St Patrick - Peel Session
Tender To The Blues - Peel Session
La Magnifica - Peel Session
6:30 Is Just Way Too Early - Peel Session
Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel – Demo

Forthcoming James Yorkston And The Athletes live shows:

Tuesday 29th May 2012

Cecil Sharp House, London
Tickets - £14.50
http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/JAMES-YORKSTON-AND-THE-ATHLETES/
 
Support from Seamus Fogarty
 
Thursday 31st May

The Caves, Edinburgh
8pm - 1am
Early advance tix: £12
Available soon from www.fencerecords.com

Support from Seamus Fogarty
& Fence Records DJs til late

Currently at the tail end of their UK tour promoting recent album, E Volo Love, Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains can now announce a headline show at Cargo in London on 18th April. Tickets are available HERE.

Fránçois and his band have also been confirmed for The Great Escape which runs in Brighton between May 10th and 12th, tickets are available HERE. Further live dates are to be announced.

Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains recently got together with their friends Slow Club, and have covered a track from each other’s albums. Fránçois said: "Slow Club's music makes me believe that being on earth can be a simple and enjoyable operation." Beccy from Slow Club had this to say about the cover: "I really love it, Fránçois (obviously) found funk where we didn't even realise there was funk!"  

Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains are performing as special guests to King Creosote & Jon Hopkins tonight at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire, and play a sold-out Domino night at the Barfly in Camden tomorrow as part of the HMV Next Big Things, alongside labelmates Trailer Trash Tracys and Eugene McGuinness.

For a taste of what to expect from the band live, watch a version of ‘Piscine’ fimed in France below:

UPCOMING UK LIVE DATES:
02/02: London - Shepherds Bush Empire (supporting King Creosote & Jon Hopkins)
03/02: London – Barfly (HMV Next Big Thing)
18/04: London – Cargo – headline show
10-12th May: Brighton - The Great Escape

Forget It, the album opener from the much acclaimed Coastal Grooves, will be released as the next Blood Orange single on March 12th. Listen to it below.

We can also announce that Blood Orange has been confirmed to play at this year’s Field Day Festival in London’s Victoria Park on June 2nd. Further UK dates are to be announced.

Blood Orange has also been invited to perform as special guest to Florence & The Machine on her upcoming US and Australian tours in April and May. (Full dates HERE).

Watch a video for previous single, Sutphin Boulevard...

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of their seminal album ‘Cold House’, Domino is proud to rerelease Hood’s definitive work as a special limited edition double vinyl set, available for sale on Monday the 20th of February 2012.

‘Cold House’ is repressed for the first time in a ltd edition of 500 for the world as a double gatefold lp cut at 45 rpm for maximum audiophile pleasure and also comes with exclusive liner notes to the vinyl edition and download codes.  Pre-order ‘Cold House’ HERE.

Domino is also releasing, ‘Recollected’ a 6 CD collection of the finest works of Hood.  ‘Recollected’ features their four Domino released studio albums ‘Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys’, ‘The Cycle Of Days And Seasons’, ‘Cold House’ and ‘Outside Closer’ plus a compilation of the band’s Domino EPs as well as The Hood Tapes, a 24 song bonus CD of rare, previously unreleased recordings.  ‘Recollected’ is available via Dom Mart from Monday the 5th of December 2011, see details HERE, and through other retail outlets on Monday the 20th of  February 2012.

Hood formed in Leeds in December 1990 around the nucleus of brothers Richard and Christopher Adams.  The band released 9 albums and 17 singles and are now on long term hiatus, whilst band members work on their own musical projects.  Across a quartet of albums for Domino the Yorkshire-based experimentalists traced an arc from sprawling post-rock to processed piano pieces to icy electronica referencing the likes of Talk Talk and Disco Inferno along the way, producing some of the most beguiling and special music of the late nineties and early noughties.

The six CDs have been completely remastered from the original sources, and are lovingly packaged in a deluxe rigid board mounted box set, featuring each album in its own spined mini album sleeve, with new, fully comprehensive 32 page sleeve notes.  The box set will retail at approx £50.

‘A band making the kind of Serious Innovative Music people like to imagine Radiohead are, only without a hint that they know or care that they're doing it at all.’ -  Pitchfork

COLD HOUSE

1 THEY REMOVED ALL TRACE THAT ANYTHING HAD EVER HAPPENED HERE
2 YOU SHOW NO EMOTION AT ALL
3 BRANCHES BARE
4 ENEMY OF TIME
5 THE WINTER HIT HARD
6 I CAN’T FIND MY BRITTLE YOUTH
7 THIS IS WHAT WE DO TO SELL OUT(S)
8 THE RIVER CURLS AROUND THE TOWN
9 LINES LOW TO FROZEN GROUND
10 YOU’RE WORTH THE WHOLE WORLD

Patrick Watson will be releasing his new album on Domino and Secret City in April of this year. Adventures In Your Own Backyard will be released the week of April 30th in the UK and US, and April 16th in his native Canada, continental Europe and Japan.

Adventures... was made at home after a gruelling five-year run that saw Patrick and his band (bassist Mishka Stein, guitarist Simon Angell and drummer Robbie Kuster) tour the world in support of two critically-acclaimed and successful albums, including the Polaris award-winning Close To Paradise. During this time, Patrick also contributed to Ma Fleur, the 2007 album from The Cinematic Orchestra, co-writing and singing on a sizeable portion of the record. In Patrick’s own words, Adventures... is an effort on the band’s part to “make the kind of music we would want to listen to at home.” The album’s title is a nod to this sentiment and to the fact that it was recorded almost entirely in Watson’s apartment in Montreal, unlike his previous efforts which were sprawling recordings in both geography and arrangements.

In spite of the relatively spartan settings in which to record, Adventures... is equally as ambitious as Watson’s previous efforts and a thing of dynamic beauty. The result is an album that is still ripe with the touchstones one has come to expect from Patrick Watson and his collaborators, but permeated with a greater sense of patience and confidence. Adventures In Your Own Backyard is an attempt by Watson and the band to simplify their sights—to make music a bit more close to home in every sense of the phrase.

Adventures... will be preceded by the single and video for the sweeping, elegant “Into Giants,” which is available for preview to all below. Patrick and his band have already lined up shows before the album’s release that will include a headlining appearance at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March, a variety of dates across Europe this April, and support dates with Andrew Bird in the US this May, with much more touring to follow throughout the world.

Tracklisting is as follows:

Lighthouse
Blackwind
Step Out For A While
The Quiet Crowd
Into Giants
Morning Sheets
Words In The Fire
The Things You Do
Strange Crooked Road
Noisy Sunday
Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Swimming Pools

Arctic Monkeys have unveiled a video for ‘You and I’, the B-side to ‘Black Treacle’, released today on 7” and digitally. The exclusive new track is by Richard Hawley and The Death Ramps and was recorded and produced by Ross Orton in Sheffield.

Filmed in the studio by Focus Creeps during the recording session, the ‘You and I’ video is available to watch below

The band will be performing ‘Black Treacle’ on the Jonathan Ross Show this coming Saturday night - January 28th (From 9.30pm on ITV1).

Arctic Monkeys will also be performing live on Radio 1 from Fearne Cotton’s Live Lounge on Wednesday morning – January 25th from 11am.

Double Six Records have further extended the world of Bill Ryder’s acclaimed solo debut If… with three new mixes from three British artists each preoccupied in their own way with memory and the uncanny: Leyland Kirby, Belbury Poly & Moon Wiring Club. You can hear Kirby's magnificent effort here and purchase all three from MP3 retailers including iTunes.